"Authority is supposedly grounded in wisdom, but I could see from a very early age that authority was only a system of control and didn't have any inherent wisdom." - Joe Strummer

"The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask." - Jim Morrison

"I'm the one who has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to." - Jimi Hendrix

"If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose." - Charles Bukowski

"Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion." - Jack Kerouac